I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now.… — Dorothy Hamill Copy Share Image
And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you… — Jami Gertz Copy Share Image
At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I’m a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath,… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
[In the moment of reading writer and reader] are both briefly their best selves, or at least better selves. A flawed human… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was constantly going to play readings,… — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
While their competition is asleep, world-class leaders are up - and they're not watching the news or reading the paper. They are… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent.… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
“Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I actually dislike, more than many people, working through literary allusion. I just feel that there's something a bit snobbish or elitist… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
As a grad student and later as a writer, I have found it hard to sustain the pure, almost erotic love of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
With those organizations, it's like time travel. I just reach back and find little kids who were like me. Maybe the circumstances… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
A high-ranking Syrian official in DC laughed when he heard I was reading Michel Aflaq and writing this book. He said, "Let… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“To engage the written word means to follow a line of thought, which requires considerable powers of classifying, inference-making and reasoning. It… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“No policeman had ever arrested anyone for over-reading; but ignorance prosecutes those who under-read. You begin to stop growing on the day… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“There are countless reasons for reading, but when you’re young and uncertain of your identity, of who you may be, one of… — Michael Cart Copy Share Image
The freedom to be someone else entirely and be different versions of something. That's what I loved and I loved watching movies… — Gwendoline Christie Copy Share Image
I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The quality of our reading is not only an index of the quality of our thought; it is our best-known route to… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things we as individuals can't do much about. We can't solve global warming as individuals, or health… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I'm quite nosy. Somebody will be reading a book on a train, and I'll go: 'How is it? Is it any good?'… — Ophelia Lovibond Copy Share Image
“Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what needs… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The effect of reading literary non-fiction that matters most to me is when the coin drops, and this happens in the company… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
“To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness… It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have a ton of scripts sent to me. At the moment, Im frankly struggling to catch up. Im reading through all… — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I believe in any kid's ability to read any book and form their own judgements. It's the job of a parent to… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Do we look like thrill-seekers? Wasn't it enough that we had to put up that sign reading NO HABLA ESPANOL and acknowledge… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own; and this is especially… — Joseph P. Farrell Copy Share Image
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